I hope the movie will become an epoch-making masterpiece produced under a good partnership between Japan and Hollywood.” If the talents of global film artists are added to the work, surely the excitement will be multiplied. It was as if Takeshi Kitano encountered Akira Kurosawa or Lucas remade Stagecoach into Star Wars.

Tezka commented, “The collaboration between Osamu Tezuka and Naoki Urasawa was big news in the manga world. I sincerely hope a great movie will be produced, which all the fans across the world will get satisfied with, excited at and touched by.” Meledandri has undertaken more adventures than we did.

It is great pleasure not only for us but also for all movie and manga fans that PLUTO is turned into a movie in Hollywood, though I think Mr. It was a big challenge for us since it was considered as a taboo to challenge it in Japanese manga world. And I and Naoki Urasawa brought the legendary work back to the 21st century as PLUTO. Nagasaki commented, “In the 20th century, all the boys in Japan hungrily read “Astro boy, The Greatest Robot on Earth” by Osamu Tezuka. I am privileged to be working with Tezuka, a company with an illustrious history and with Urasawa, one of our most gifted contemporary writers.” Meledandri commented, “With Pluto, Naoki Urasawa has defined an imaginative world full of inventive action and adventure but it was his characters and heartfelt story that compelled me towards acquiring these rights. As a big fan of Tezuka, I would like to watch it with a lot of expectation.” Now another challenge, turning PLUTO into a live action movie, has appeared. But I never thought I would remake the episode into PLUTO. Urasawa commented, “I have been a big fan of The Greatest Robot on Earth since I was a child. The combined creative genius of Urasawa, Meledandri and Tezuka guarantees an imaginative, exciting and visually stunning event film executive produced by Macoto Tezka. The manga series is characterized by Urasawa and Nagasaki’s signature brand of storytelling. Urasawa’s PLUTO, which he collaborated with Takashi Nagasaki, updates the characters from the legendary ASTRO BOY series, created by Osamu Tezuka (known as the“God of Manga”), brings an action-filled saga set in a world populated by giant robots and cybernetic citizens. Most recently, his new banner, Illumination Entertainment, released the film Despicable Me which has become the 10th highest grossing animated film of all time in the US.

Meledandri’s international hits have amassed over $2 billion WBO including: Ice Age, Ice Age 2, Robots, Horton Hears a Who and The Simpsons Movie. PLUTO, which has sold over 8.5 million copies in Japan, results from the union of the most beloved character in Japanese culture with the most contemporary Japanese writer, Naoki Urasawa. – Tezuka Productions and Chris Meledandri’s Illumination Entertainment are partnering to bring PLUTO to life as a live- action/CG hybrid film.

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